After the Apple: Women in the Bible: Women In the Bible - Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing
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After the Apple: Women in the Bible: Women In the Bible - Timeless Stories of Love, Lust, and Longing
In a powerful blend of history, psychology, and storytelling, Naomi Rosenblatt reinterprets the stories of the women of the Old Testament. Through her lens, we view these women with a new understanding, marveling at the very modern dilemmas and problems they confronted. Women everywhere will recognize their own struggles to love, to mother, to succeed in relationships, and to survive their way through a complicated world.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Women We Can Learn From:
I enjoyed reading about these amazingly smart and committed women of the Bible. Their lesson's for living can work for us today too. Their strength and integrity can empower us through life's tough times.
After the Apple:
I loved this book.It was wonderful,I higly recommend this book to scholars of the Divine Feminine and Biblical Scholarship.This gives the women of the Bible a wonderful overview.It is a positive and humanizing way to look at the Matriarchs of the Jewish Faith and Christian as well.Angela Miller.
Like a Textbook:
I was so excited to read this after seeing the author on television. I thought it would be similar to THE RED TENT which I highly recommend. However, AFTER THE APPLE reads like a textbook and is not compelling. It would be a good book for religious school or studies although it is not an interesting read. I had to put it down, unfinished, which I rarely do.
Insights into little-discussed stories:
Rosenblatt, whose earlier book I have also read, can always be relied upon to provide a new perspective on the Bible's oft-told stories. This book, which adopts a feminist perspective, is quite strong and thoughtful. Rosenblatt's retellings of lesser-known stories such as that of Judah and Tamar, or that of David and Abigail, have considerable force. It had been a long time since I had looked at the Abigail tale, and Rosenblatt added a great deal to my understanding. Some of the discussions of the... more info
